Thursday, January 30, 2025

That's a big boy

 


Constructed in Styria, Austria in the early 1400’s, the Punhart Von Steyr is the largest wrought iron bombard by caliber.  According to modern calculations, it could fire a a 690 kg stone ball around 600 m using a 15 kg charge of gunpowder.  Today the Punhart Von Steyr is on display at the Museum of Military History in Vienna.

Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006

Grace Hudson (1865-1937). 
“To-Tole (The Star)” (1894)
 Oil on canvas
 Located in the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California

 




Carl Larsson - The Studio, from ‘A Home’ Series (ca. 1895)

 


Joseph Alanen (Finnish, 1885-1920) - Lemminkäinen and the Great Snake (1919-1920)

 


Alfred Guillou - The Arrival of the Pardon of Sainte-Anne-de-Fouesnant at Concarneau (1887)



Linocut prints by William Hays. ~ Dawn ~ After the Storm, 2016.


 





 

St. George and a Dragon-

 


Shot through the heart, and you're to blame. You give love, a bad name!